The Beijing camp, which had accumulated a lot of difficulties to return, was completely disbanded, and the newly established Beijing Division Praetorian Guard would replace it.

There are no more nobles to eat soldiers' salaries and drink soldiers' blood, and there are no more hereditary officers to fight their hands.

The Beijing Praetorian Guard will only listen to Zhu Youzhen's orders, and no matter whether it is a noble or a civilian official, he has no right to interfere in everything of the Beijing Praetorian Guard.

The establishment of the Beijing Guard is only 30,000 people, far less than the establishment of the Beijing battalion, but there is no vacancy, and when the equipment is well trained, the combat effectiveness will far exceed the original Beijing battalion, and Zhu Youzhen has absolute confidence in this.

Zhu Youzhen suddenly discovered a problem, and he ignored another place to spend money, that is, the equipment of the Beijing Praetorian Guard.

Since it is the Praetorian Guard of the Beijing Division, it is naturally equipped with the best weapons, firearms, artillery, armor, war horses, and all kinds of equipment are the best, and they are better than the Liaodong Praetorian Guard. Although there are only 30,000 establishments, if they are fully equipped, they will cost at least one million taels of silver.

And this amount of money, the household department can't afford it at all. The treasury silver in the hands of the household department is now not enough to pay the salaries of officials in Beijing, and it will not be paid until the summer tax arrives. Therefore, the silver of the equipment can only be solved by the inner library.

In order to dissolve the Beijing camp, he just spent 1.2 million taels of buyout silver, and almost spent all the silver obtained from the confiscation of Xungui. And now, Haimao Silver has just been sent from Fujian, and it will cost half of it, and Zhu Youzhen feels heartache when he thinks about it.

The emperor's family has no food leftover!

No, you have to keep looking for money.

Just when Zhu Youzhen was racking his brains to find silver, in the court, an official suddenly impeached the eunuch of Suzhou Town.

"Liang Fang, the eunuch guarding the town, has recruited hooligans and scoundrels as minions, set up private tax customs, extorted business travelers, and schemingly seized them, causing public resentment to boil. On 9 February, Liang Fang suddenly levied gold and silver from all weaving mills in Suzhou, twice as much as last year.

Just after winter, the spring silkworms have not yet produced silk, most of the weaving mills have not started, and they can't afford to pay the gold and silver at all, so Liang Fang sent a large number of thugs to forcibly occupy the weaving mills, which caused the people of Suzhou to boil.

On February 13, more than 1,000 weavers from Suzhou gathered to storm the yamen of the eunuchs, and fought with the thugs raised by Liang Fang, killing and injuring more than 100 people, and the whole Jiangdong was shaken.

Governor Su Song and the prefect of Suzhou jointly sent a letter to ask His Majesty to recall the eunuchs of Suzhou Town, and recall all the tax supervisors and mining envoys who competed with the people for profit and took advantage of them. ”

"Please Your Majesty recall the eunuchs and mine supervisors and tax envoys, and return the people to a good place."

"Your Majesty, those eunuchs who are guarding the town rely on their royal status, they have done all the bad things by stealing and robbing, the people's grievances are boiling, and even the local government has no right to deal with them, and in the long run, they will inevitably lose the hearts of the people, Your Majesty, please withdraw the eunuchs sent abroad."

For a time, the officials in the court were all eunuchs who asked to retreat.

Zhu Youzhen was in a trance for a while. After the previous generation disposed of Wei Zhongxian's eunuchs, the civil officials also went up one after another, demanding the withdrawal of the remnants of the mine tax envoys and the town guard eunuchs, and Zhu Youzhen agreed at that time. However, later, seeing that the treasury was decreasing year by year, the amount of silver spent every year was increasing year by year, coupled with the distrust of civil officials, Zhu Youzhen sent the eunuchs to guard the town again, collecting money for himself and monitoring the place at the same time.

In this life, from the very beginning, Zhu Youzhen did not trust the civil officials, and in order not to cut off his own ears and eyes, he did not withdraw the mine tax envoy from the beginning. The courtiers also often attacked those eunuchs and asked to withdraw, but Zhu Youzhen has been ignoring them, but he didn't expect so many officials to speak out at the same time today.

It seems that the eunuchs did make some trouble.

"Motosuke, what do you think?" When the court calmed down, Zhu Youzhen looked at Shoufu Huang Liji.

Huang Liji stood up on the train: "Your Majesty, Suzhou is a heavy place for taxes in the Ming Dynasty, if there is too much chaos, it will inevitably affect this year's taxes, please also ask Your Majesty to investigate." ”

"Elder Wen Ge, what do you see?" Zhu Youzhen looked at Wen Tiren again.

Wen Tiren's face turned pale all of a sudden, and he knew that this question was very difficult to answer. The eunuchs and the mine tax collectors acted in the local area, which greatly offended the interests of the gentry, and the recall of the mine tax envoys was a matter of interest to all civil officials, and if they objected, they would inevitably offend most of the officials. But Wen Tiren also knew that the eunuchs brought a large amount of silver to the emperor every year, and the emperor definitely did not want to withdraw them, and if he agreed with the civil officials, he would definitely offend the emperor.

"Your Majesty forgives the sin, but the minister hasn't thought it through, and he doesn't know what to do for a while." Wen Tiren said with a bitter face. If you don't want to offend all the civil officials, and you don't want to offend the emperor, then don't show your attitude.

Zhu Youzhen shook his head, Wen Tiren is an honest official and has extremely high talents, but he has no responsibility, adhering to the principle of doing more and making more mistakes and not doing well, and never refuses to express his stance on major events. This was the case in the previous life, and it is still the case in this life.

"Since all the ministers agree that the eunuchs and mine supervisors should be withdrawn, then let's do so." Zhu Youzhen suddenly laughed.

"Your Majesty Shengming!" The ministers were overjoyed and shouted one after another. They really didn't expect that Zhu Youzhen would agree to recall the eunuchs sent abroad so easily. Originally, I thought that in order to quell the civil unrest, Zhu Youzhen would at most promise to recall the eunuchs in Suzhou, but he didn't expect to recall all the expatriate eunuchs at once.

The joy of the officials was under Zhu Youzhen's eyes, and Zhu Youzhen sneered in his heart.

In fact, he had already had the idea of withdrawing those eunuchs. These expatriate eunuchs brought themselves a lot of silver every year, but only a small part of the silver they sent to themselves compared to the silver they had extorted and looted.

Over the past year, through the brocade-clothed guards, Zhu Youzhen has learned a lot about the behavior of these expatriate eunuchs, and knows that it is indeed as the civil officials said, these eunuchs are really too bad to make trouble among the people, and many small businessmen and many ordinary households have been bankrupted by them, and the people's grievances are indeed very great.

And these eunuchs have a common trait, which is greed. Ninety percent of the silver they got went into their own pockets, and only one percent was escorted to the capital. In other words, he received almost a million taels of silver from them every year, but tens of millions of taels of silver went into the pockets of these town guards and eunuchs.

All the evil deeds of the eunuchs will eventually be remembered by the people, and it is really not worth it to lose the hearts of hundreds of people for this million taels of silver every year.

Since Zhu Youzhen is determined to rebuild the Ming Dynasty, and since he is determined to let the people of the world live a good life, he naturally can't do such a thing anymore. Therefore, even if these civil officials are not impeached, he will withdraw these eunuchs sent abroad.

As for cutting off one's hands and feet, with brocade guards all over the country, there is no longer such a problem.

But.

"The eunuchs are collecting mining taxes and gold and silver for me, and without this silver, my inner palace will not have a good time. The eunuchs could withdraw, but the mining and commercial taxes had to be collected. In this way, a tax branch can be set up in the important place to collect commercial tax and mining tax. Zhu Youzhen said loudly. The eunuchs had to withdraw, and the taxes that should have been levied still had to be collected.

The officials in the court were rejoicing in the withdrawal of the eunuchs, and Zhu Youzhen's words brought their laughter to an abrupt end.

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